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Dec 15, 2018, 03:14 |
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Blue wrote on Dec 15, 2018, 00:12:
deqer wrote on Dec 14, 2018, 10:24:
Can't delete my post. Site still says "The email address/password combination you entered does not have the appropriate permission to delete this comment." even though I'm logged in and can edit my settings. Apologies, but post deletion is an administrative function. I added the word 'administrative' to the message to (hopefully...) make it even clearer that this is a matter of board rights. |
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| News Comments > SIGIL Trailer and Q&A |
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Re: SIGIL Trailer and Q&A |
Dec 11, 2018, 08:46 |
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Kajetan wrote on Dec 11, 2018, 07:44:
And two years ago, he released a single map, which was way better than most user maps ever since. Two maps, actually. |
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| General Discussion > Suggestions for Old Blue's News' RSS Feed... |
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Re: Suggestions for Old Blue's News' RSS Feed... |
Dec 7, 2018, 09:01 |
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Ant wrote on Nov 17, 2018, 21:13:
https://www.bluesnews.com/news/news_1_0.rdf should show dates and times. None of the RSS feed readers show them.  Blue and/or Frans, please kindly update it to include them?  I rarely check the forums, so email would have gained a quicker response. As would requesting it, like, a decade earlier.  But better late than never, UTC date/timestamps are now included.
With a plural subject, what is your next suggestion?  |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Oct 5, 2018, 17:52 |
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Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 5, 2018, 14:49:
Frans wrote on Oct 5, 2018, 14:42:
You didn't hard-refresh, I take it? Hmm, I launched it in a new browser and one updated, but the other didn't -- how could that have happened? Weird. Because I also fixed the filename of the first one (gunnaranddder -> gunnaranddeer ) so it was a "new" image. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Oct 5, 2018, 14:42 |
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Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 5, 2018, 13:27:
Frans wrote on Oct 5, 2018, 11:50:
Actually, it didn't as such, but I fixed up everything now. One out of two ain't bad? You didn't hard-refresh, I take it? |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Oct 5, 2018, 11:50 |
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Blue wrote on Oct 5, 2018, 09:48:
our screenshots script would flip them sideways Actually, it didn't as such, but I fixed up everything now. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Aug 26, 2018, 15:10 |
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Rigs wrote on Aug 26, 2018, 08:16:
Well, you guys should check your Twitter then I don't go there (or any other anti-"social media").
It turns out that outside mail sent to root@ reaches only Blue, we're taking steps to make it reach me as well. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Aug 26, 2018, 04:44 |
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RedEye9 wrote on Aug 25, 2018, 21:38:
Frans, messing with that ESP stuff is scary. Good Luck! Blue somewhat over-interpreted my explanation. The issue that was bugging me had nothing to do with Blue's News or email, it was in an unrelated programming project. Only after sorting that out, I happened to see Blue's mail. No ESP involved, although it makes for a funnier story.
And yes, the server hung up again all Saturday afternoon and early evening, but cleared out of it by itself. No ESP aided to become aware of that, and nobody emailed either, that's why it lasted so long. So there.  |
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| General Discussion > Blues news is pretty horrible on phones... |
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Re: Blues news is pretty horrible on phones... |
Jul 29, 2018, 03:46 |
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Quboid wrote on Jul 27, 2018, 19:09:
JeffD wrote on Jul 26, 2018, 17:18:
So in other words, no one can be bothered with installing newer software. My only guess is you want to preserve the sites previous data, but that is neither a fix or workaround. Also how are security updates for software that is no longer updated?
My understanding is that the content management system is custom, and is maintained by Frans but no significant new features are added. The server software is pretty standard, and is updated regularly. That understanding is correct. The CMS is called Blammo, btw. I think (hope) I locked down any possible backdoors, SQL injection points, etc. But at any rate, because it is custom, at least script kiddies and other common hack attempts are futile, and have been for 19 years. Our Apache log is testament to this not being for lack of trying. 
This comment was edited on Jul 29, 2018, 07:16. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Jun 25, 2018, 16:31 |
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Cutter wrote on Jun 25, 2018, 14:02:
Blue, the comments section in the Conan Exiles blurb isn't coming up. An unclosed iframe tag ate it. |
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Into the Black |
Apr 27, 2018, 09:19 |
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| Well, the OS upgrade did suffer an unexpected hiccup, needing assistance from data center support -- hence the long outage -- but otherwise encountered no major problems on the website/back-end side. So we're back! <phew> |
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| General Discussion > Account deleting |
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Re: Account deleting |
Apr 23, 2018, 05:49 |
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Rain wrote on Apr 22, 2018, 17:09:
When I try to delete my comment, it says "The email address/password combination you entered does not have the appropriate permission to delete this comment." After looking through the relevant board.pl code, it turns out only admins (Blue and me) can delete posts. So Blue's Jan 2017 post was unfortunately not accurate. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Mar 26, 2018, 18:00 |
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Ant wrote on Mar 26, 2018, 12:37:
eRe4s3r wrote on Mar 26, 2018, 08:56:
And just to make it known, THANK YOU for keeping this site running on the technical end. You are imo the most awesome person on the planet! Wouldn't know what to do without bluesnews.com every morning! Ditto. Isn't BN the oldest gaming web site now? I miss FiringSquad, Avault, HappyPuppies, etc. Thanks, that's very kind.
Yeah, very few gaming (news) sites from the '90s are still active. Many died, some are dormant (Gamer's Hell), some changed a lot (Shacknews). And sites like GameSpot and IGN are still going.
http://www.gamegossip.com/ collects feeds from who's still around, but since I stopped closely following gaming news years ago, I'm probably overlooking things. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Mar 26, 2018, 07:51 |
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mag wrote on Mar 25, 2018, 19:13:
I am still getting expired SSL cert warnings when I go to https://bluesnews.com. I have to go to www.bluesnews.com to avoid the warning. Oh, that's interesting. There's a rewrite rule that always directs users to the canonical hostname www.bluesnews.com, but this indicates the browser first checks the cert before following the redirect. A little unexpected, but logical now that I think about it.
I've added bluesnews.com to the cert. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: better CSS? |
Mar 25, 2018, 12:16 |
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MxxCon wrote on Mar 25, 2018, 10:22:
Any chance you guys could improve CSS for mobile? There already is a topic for that, but no further update at this time. Mathematically speaking though, chances are rarely precisely 0.0%. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Expired SSL Certificate |
Mar 25, 2018, 08:56 |
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MxxCon wrote on Mar 24, 2018, 21:30:
To prevent future cookups with ssl cert, consider using https://certificatemonitor.org/ That would have been useful with the previous annual Network Solution cert (which Blue originally intended to extend), but now the Certbot weekly cron job serves the same purpose. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Mar 24, 2018, 17:53 |
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Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 24, 2018, 17:23:
Yeah... well, as someone who spent the better part of 4-5 years working on ordering, updating, and installing certificates... automatic is a relative term... Okay, but I've been running Certbot on another site for a bit under a year, and the three-monthly renewals went fine. The cron job is in place. So we'll see what happens here in (nearly) three months. |
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